Lunático

A comedy about bipolar disorder told from within: a mind that begins to overflow, with humour, stage play and the course of a diagnosis.

Lunático draws on a real clinical history and, with humour and without morbid sensationalism, follows the experience of a manic episode and the hospitalisations and episodes that followed, up to the diagnosis. The piece sits within the register of comedy and stage play, with a gaze that alternates between chaos and lucidity, delirium and the everyday.

It is presented as an intimate journey through bipolar disorder told from the inside by someone who lives it, rather than as a medical account. The text relies on confusion and on jumps between the real and the fantastical, with images that play with the moon and the Earth as a metaphor for shifts in mood.

It is a show designed for an adult audience interested in text-based theatre and in stories about mental health told with irony. It is performed at Arlequín Gran Vía Teatro, on San Bernardo street in Madrid.